acceleration!

[lee db]

hi everyone,
call me stupid (please dont! lol) but i didnt realise that the acceleration is 3 stage? i knew it was fast but didnt know that, foot down normal = bog standard acceleration, foot down = drop gear and fly away, but foot down hard = face on the rear seats! i only noticed the little tube thing with the button on top yesterday! now i know she can fly! lol

basically i want to know if this is a standard feature, god i love this car!

[Wodjno]

little tube with button on top ??

Deffo not standard ?

Any Pics..

2 things it could be .. Nitrous..? But i very much doubt it

Or You have an EBC fitted, that has already got the boost raised, and the button is linked to an Overtake boost setting that is activated via the button and is probably set to boost at a higher level for a specific amount of time..

[orionn2o]

Hmm this is interesting... put some pics up !

[lee db]

hmmmm, nitrous sounds cool! i will take some pics in a couple of mins and post! lol, i just wanna know, a, beacause i have no idea what it is and, b i may have to let the insurance company know, dont want to invalidate anything! give me 5 mins to get the pics, i'll post them in the pic forum as i dont know how to attach to posts. cheers guys!

[Wodjno]

[quote=lee db]i'll post them in the pic forum as i dont know how to attach to posts.quote]

???

[lee db]

ok im gonna try to add pics here, if it doesn't work i'll up them in the pic forum with my car pics..............

[lee db]

ok ok i managed it, gold star to me! lol

[Wodjno]

Under the accelerator pedal ?

Quick.. Rip up the carpet and see where that cable go's to

[Nevman]

Just don't put into "R" gear - it doesn't mean ROCKET

[orionn2o]

thats rather interesting...

as Wodj says, wheres it go? Or is it that as you push harder you just get more gas !

[lee db]

yeah its under the accelerator, have no idea where it goes, just know that as i put my foot down hard, the car has a massive fit and speeds off , almost go back in time! lol, well i'll be at the meet on sunday in Ashford so i might get some heads up there!
i thought it was a standard thing, maybe i was wrong............. hehe

[Wodjno]

thats rather interesting...

as Wodj says, wheres it go? Or is it that as you push harder you just get more gas !

More Gas ? More gas won't give you more power It will give you less

Not unless your mixing it with More air And the onlyway u will get more air from a button is eiher Nitrous Or a Boost Controller

My bets are on the latter

[Wodjno]

Can you gice us a couple of pics of under your bonnet please.. :

1 of the bulk head and another of the area between the engine and airbox

[orionn2o]

More Gas ? More gas won't give you more power It will give you less

Not unless your mixing it with More air And the onlyway u will get more air from a button is eiher Nitrous Or a Boost Controller

My bets are on the latter

It will if your tps reading goes from 90% to 100%.

[Wodjno]

It will if your tps reading goes from 90% to 100%.

Which it would do without a button under the pedal.. And going from 90 to 100% is gonna raise the boost

[orionn2o]

BUT if the buttons holding the accelerator up and you have to click the button to do the full amount... that was the point i was making

[lee db]

i'm sooo out of my depth! lol, i have a few pics of the engine bay in the members car forum, try looking there, if its still no good i will take some better ones, someone at work suggested nitrous, but i didnt belive them, lol, if it helps i managed to get from 40 to 100 in about 7 seconds ish on a straight on the way to work, thats when i tested it out, its a rough guess, but if 7 seconds, sounds ridiculous thats because i was worried about how fast it was accelerating, and not how long it took! lol

[lee db]

tps? lol i have no idea whats goin on! lol

[Wodjno]

BUT if the buttons holding the accelerator up and you have to click the button to do the full amount... that was the point i was making

But going from 90% throttle to 100% throttle isn't enough to give you warp factor 8 acceleration.. The ECU is already seeing WOT so will have switched over to the fuel maps it has... There would be no point of having a switch that takes you from 90to100% throttle.. It wouldn't give u a bigkick..

The only thing that would is an EBC or Nitrous

[Wodjno]

tps? lol i have no idea whats goin on! lol

TPS = Throttle Position Sensor